Army reconnaissance teams toured flood-hit areas of Somerset today as Met
Office figures showed that parts of southern England had endured their
wettest January on record.

Six Army Land Rovers fanned out across the flooded Somerset Levels, where an
area of 25 square miles is under water, to size up the scale of a deployment
ordered by David Cameron after an urgent plea for help from Somerset County
Council.

As the reconnaissance teams assessed the task, three military planners met
council officials to discuss villagers’ needs before deploying specialist
amphibious vehicles and other materiel from Army bases at Taunton and